Provincial Trunk Highway 9 (PTH 9) is a provincial primary highway located in the

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. It runs from

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(where it meets with

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) north to Gimli. The highway is known as Main Street between

and Selkirk, as this is the name of the road within both of those cities, and has a suburban character as a 4-lane, mostly undivided highway with numerous residences and businesses. At Selkirk, the highway turns off to bypass the city and becomes more of a rural highway. The bypass around Selkirk is known as the "Selkirk By-Pass". The road that runs through Selkirk is known as PTH 9A (Main Street also continues as PTH 9A, and then as PR 320 until PTH 4, where it becomes Breezy Point Road).

Route description

PTH 9 begins in the

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at the

city limits, with the road continuing southwest into the city as

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(Route 52 / Main Street). It heads northeast as a 4-lane divided highway for to have a cloverleaf interchange with PTH 101 (North Perimeter Highway) before becoming undivided (still a 4-lane) and winding its way along the banks of the Red River, passing by several subdivisions before crossing into the

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. PTH 9 temporarily widens to a divided highway in Parkdale at around an intersection with PTH 27 (Parkdale Road, leads to

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) and PR 238 (River Road, follows along the western banks of the river and provides access to

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), before passing through the hamlets of Lees Crossing, St. Andrews (where it has an intersection with PR 410 (St. Andrews Road)), and bypassing Lockport to the west at an intersection with PTH 44. The highway becomes divided again as it travels through

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, where it passes by

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and has a junction with PTH 67, and Old England, where it splits off on a 2-lane bypass around the southern and western sides of the city of Selkirk, having intersections with PR 230 and PTH 4, with the old route through the city known as PTH 9A. PTH 9 heads northwest as a 2-lane to travel through

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, where it curves due northward, crosses Wavey Creek, and begins paralleling PTH 8 (which only lies to the west). The highway travels through

Petersfield Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rail link connecting Portsmouth a ...

, where it crosses

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, and

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, where it has an intersection with PTH 17, before the begins following the southwestern coastline of

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. It passes through the beach communities of Chalet Beach, Sans Souci, Matlock (where it has an intersection with PR 232, a loop road off PTH 9 that directly follows the shoreline), and Dunnottar (where it has an intersection with PR 225). PTH 9 now travels directly through the center of downtown

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, reuniting with PR 232 not too far from

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, and having an intersection with PR 229. The highway enters the

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region as it crosses into the

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, winding its way up the lake's shoreline as it travels through

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, where it has an intersection with PR 519, and Husavik before entering the town of Gimli. It passes through several neighborhoods and grazes the western tip of downtown, which follows Centre Street, before PTH 9 comes to and end at an intersection between PR 231 and PR 222, with the road continuing north as PR 222 while PR 231 (N Fifth Avenue) connects it to PTH 8.

History

Originally, PTH 9 followed what is now Routes 42 (then known as ''Route 40'') and 57 through Winnipeg. Outside the

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, the route followed Provincial Road 204 to Lockport, where it would join its present alignment. Today's PTH 9 between Winnipeg and Lockport was previously PTH 1 prior to 1958, and PTH 4 between 1958 and 1968. The Selkirk By-Pass between PR 230 and PTH 9A was not signed. In 1968, PTH 9 was moved to its present alignment. At Gimli, the roadway continues northerly as

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Major intersections

References

External links

Official Name and Location
- Declaration of Provincial Trunk Highways Regulation - The Highways and Transportation Act - Provincial Government of Manitoba

- Published and maintained by the Department of Infrastructure - Provincial Government of Manitoba (see Legend and Map#3)
Google Maps Search
- Provincial Trunk Highway 9 {{Attached KML, display=title,inline

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